About

Film Criticism is a peer-reviewed, open-access digital academic journal whose aim is to bring together scholarship in the field of cinema and media studies in order to present the finest work in this area, foregrounding textual criticism as a primary value. Our readership is academic, although we strive to publish material that is both accessible to undergraduates and engaging to established scholars.

With over 40 years of continuous publication, Film Criticism is the third oldest academic film journal in the United States. We have published work by such international scholars as Dudley Andrew, David Bordwell, David Cook, Andrew Horton, Ann Kaplan, Marcia Landy, Peter Lehman, Janet Staiger, and Robin Wood. Equally important, FC continues to present work from emerging generations of film and media scholars representing multiple critical, cultural and theoretical perspectives.

Open Access

Film Criticism began publishing open access in 2016, and all content from Vol. 40 onward is freely available without any Article Processing Charges (APCs) or other charges to the user or their institution. Volumes 40 and 41 were published under a Creative Commons Attribution license, while all subsequent volumes have been published under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. (Non-OA back issues can be purchased here.) Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose within the terms of the CC licenses without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. 

Copyright

If a manuscript is accepted for publication, the author grants Film Criticism and Michigan Publishing a non-exclusive, perpetual license to publish and distribute the work under the terms of the aforementioned CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Authors retain full copyright in their work, and this license does not prevent them from using the work in any way that they wish, such as publishing and distributing it elsewhere, in print or digitally. There are no APCs or other publication fees for FC.